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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by dbdr »

mappum wrote: post #647
ksrm wrote: post #563

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What's a better alternative?

You could use hashpipe ( https://github.com/jbenet/hashpipe ), from Juan Benet (the author of IPFS). It simply checks that the input to the command matches a given hash, so you can do `curl | hashpipe | sh`, and if the output of the curl command is different than expected it won't be passed in to `sh`.

If an attacker can modify the output of the curl command (on the host or on the wire), cannot they also modify the value of the hash seen and copy-pasted by the end-user? I must be missing something...

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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0xCMP wrote: post #172
munchor wrote: post #29

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I have been using this for years and all my work colleagues always ask me "what is that nyan cat on your text editor? that must be super annoying!" and I always have to tell them I just really like it. Thank you for building this, it's awesome!

Same! But sadly when I switched to Spacemacs I haven't set it up again.

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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by ThatGeoGuy »

coleifer wrote: post #166

I wrote peewee, a single file Python ORM. It's codebase is very small but it is extremely capable. http://docs.peewee-orm.com

I actually only heard of this for the first time today, and it is indeed a fantastic ORM. The `pwiz` tool is insanely useful, and is a pretty good first step towards porting over database models from other projects.

I'm quite impressed with how easy to use everything is, despite having used pwiz to generate my model classes. I had to manually edit a couple of the "related_name" fields for some foreign keys that are common between tables, as well as import the ArrayField type from playhouse.postgres_ext, but otherwise had a very, very easy time getting everything set up for what I wanted.

Thanks again for this, I didn't think porting my database schema over to Python would be so easy.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by viraptor »

Dayshine wrote: post #739
viraptor wrote: post #684

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Out of band verification. When you're doing curl pipe sh, you're trusting the host and that's it. With packages, you can verify the trust against external services like keybase, check website archive for changed key ids, check signatures on the public key if the author is into things like web of trust. It won't protect you against someone being directly malicious, but it will against MitM, website hacks, etc. It also…

>Out of band verification. When you're doing curl pipe sh, you're trusting the host and that's it. With packages, you can verify the trust against external services like keybase, check website archive for changed key ids, check signatures on the public key if the author is into things like web of trust. Your grandma is pretty advanced.

Who said anything about grandmas. The topic was "what's better than curl pipe sh". The target crowd knows how to use the terminal.

But if the software is already installed, trusted package author also allows secure updates.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by timpark »

dflock wrote: post #594
timpark wrote: post #423

I have a script that gets a bunch of data and emails it to me and some co-workers every day at 7AM. Stuff includes: high temperature/probability of precipitation for the day, bitcoin price, iTunes/Google play sales/rating values, number of "diff" lines in web pages, number of followers on Facebook/Twitter/Google+. The latter isn't entirely a vanity thing... some co-workers manage multiple social media accounts and it…

Neat! IFTTT also does this - you can create whatever events and add and output to a daily/weekly digest email, which is sent at a configurable time, if it has any content.

Thanks. :) I've been meaning to look at IFTTT more, but you know, scratch your own itch, etc. I'm not sure if it could do a sparkline like I do, but maybe if you add to a Google sheet or something. (The characters in my example got filtered out, but they look like https://github.com/sindresorhus/sparkly-cli )

eg: 12.20 (-1.60) temp

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by tsumnia »

timvdalen wrote: post #807
tsumnia wrote: post #516

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The premise is to build a json file to represent "parts" of the face. For example say I wanted to landmark a feature like the image's left eye. Here is a GIF walking through the labeling process. http://i.imgur.com/63UXkUg.gifv I would select "+New Shape" and enter in the name of the shape, in my example "left-eye". This will add the shape to model and enable cross hairs as you drag across the screen. As you click, a…

Ah, cool! I couldn't figure out how to get in a mode where you can actually place points. This is actually pretty useful for creating stuff like image maps... Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, that was sort of what I was going for when I started making it; life and work just took over. If I ever have some time, I might add a tutorial explaining how to add things

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by shermanyo »

callumprentice wrote: post #241

Simple visualization of the relative size of different planets and moons I made when my daughter was asking if the moon is bigger than the earth - http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/celestial_bodies/index....

wait, Earth's moon is _bigger_ than pluto? mind blown!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by cantbecool »

chirau wrote: post #787
cantbecool wrote: post #663

http://youtuberanktracker.com It's a simple tool to keep track of YouTube video rankings by a keyword. I found it difficult to find a simple service that didn't cost a significant amount of money.

Nice. Is there a way to see list of the keywords for which a video makes, say, the top 100 results?

No, there's no way for me to determine that within a scope of this application. You can essentially see that already via search analytics on YouTube for your videos, but you have to do some digging.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by jaredtking »

thasaleni wrote: post #765
jaredtking wrote: post #35

https://invoice-generator.com I made this 4 years ago for those times when you just need an invoice. Today 10s of thousands of individuals and businesses use this each day to get paid. It's free to use with no login required. Instead it uses localStorage to remember data.

Would be nice to support other currencies

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